Sunday, 17 May 2020

TV

Star Trek: Picard
1x08 Broken Pieces
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Films

The Goonies (1985)
[#118 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

this week on 100 Films

The schedule for my "monthly" TV column at 100 Films in a Year is all over the place these days, but I published one this week...





There was also 1 new film review...


The Head Hunter (2018)
a low-budget independent fantasy/horror movie. Such a description might conjure up images of fancy-dress-like costumes, plastic props, locations that venture no further than a mate’s back garden and a nearby bit of forest, cinematography with all the hallmarks of digital video, and some embarrassingly basic and boxy CGI. None of this is true of The Head Hunter, which marries some impressive production design to an understanding of its limits — its low budget shows only in its small scale, rather than uncomfortably forcing its reach to exceed its grasp.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.